West Sussex Windows XP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Windows XP skills within the West Sussex region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Windows XP over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Windows XP
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Ayrshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Keighley Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torpoint Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Kilbride West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	46
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	24	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	26.09 %	6.731 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£120	£105
Average daily rate	£120	£105
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£120	£105
UK excluding London average daily rate	£225	£271
% change on same period last year	-16.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.44	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£18.28	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-26.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.11	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.34	£16.83
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Operating Systems West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	92	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.122 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum daily rate	£236	£287
Average daily rate	£251	£307
% change on same period last year	-18.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£266	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.52	£24.05
Average hourly rate	£19.69	£25.36
% change on same period last year	-22.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.85	£26.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.11	£23.45
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
Windows XP South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Windows XP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Windows XP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Windows XP across the West Sussex region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Windows XP across the West Sussex region.

Windows XP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Windows XP across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Windows XP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows XP within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Crawley	-	15	£120	-
Gatwick	+7	4	£120	-
Chichester	-	3	-	-

Windows XP South East

Windows XP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Windows XP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Windows XP.

1 39 (100.00 %) Windows 2 24 (61.54 %) Microsoft 3 19 (48.72 %) Active Directory 3 19 (48.72 %) MS Office 4 12 (30.77 %) MS Exchange 5 10 (25.64 %) LAN 5 10 (25.64 %) WAN 5 10 (25.64 %) TCP/IP 6 8 (20.51 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (17.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 6 (15.38 %) UML 8 6 (15.38 %) VC++ 8 6 (15.38 %) C++ 9 5 (12.82 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 5 (12.82 %) MS Excel

9 5 (12.82 %) Rational Rose 9 5 (12.82 %) Citrix 9 5 (12.82 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (12.82 %) Degree 10 4 (10.26 %) Firewall 10 4 (10.26 %) DNS 11 3 (7.692 %) Interwoven 11 3 (7.692 %) VERITAS 11 3 (7.692 %) VPN 11 3 (7.692 %) DHCP 11 3 (7.692 %) Windows NT 11 3 (7.692 %) C 11 3 (7.692 %) Legal 11 3 (7.692 %) Backup Exec 11 3 (7.692 %) Software Engineering

Windows XP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Windows XP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Windows XP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.564 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 12 (30.77 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (17.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (5.128 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 19 (48.72 %) MS Office 2 5 (12.82 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (25.64 %) LAN 1 10 (25.64 %) WAN 1 10 (25.64 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (10.26 %) DNS 2 4 (10.26 %) Firewall 3 3 (7.692 %) Internet 3 3 (7.692 %) VPN 3 3 (7.692 %) DHCP 4 2 (5.128 %) VoIP 4 2 (5.128 %) Intranet 4 2 (5.128 %) Broadband 5 1 (2.564 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 5 (12.82 %) Rational Rose
General 1 3 (7.692 %) Legal 2 2 (5.128 %) Military 3 1 (2.564 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 12 (30.77 %) Analyst 2 11 (28.21 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 9 (23.08 %) Desktop Support 4 7 (17.95 %) Helpdesk Support 5 5 (12.82 %) Software Engineer 5 5 (12.82 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (12.82 %) 2nd Line Support 6 4 (10.26 %) 1st Line Support 7 3 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 7 3 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (5.128 %) Helpdesk Engineer 8 2 (5.128 %) Administrator 8 2 (5.128 %) Network Administrator 9 1 (2.564 %) Software Test Engineer 9 1 (2.564 %) Network Support 9 1 (2.564 %) Field Support Engineer 9 1 (2.564 %) PC Support 9 1 (2.564 %) Desktop Analyst 9 1 (2.564 %) Field Engineer 9 1 (2.564 %) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.564 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 39 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (20.51 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (12.82 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (7.692 %) Windows NT 5 2 (5.128 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.38 %) UML 2 3 (7.692 %) Software Engineering 2 3 (7.692 %) Requirements Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.564 %) OO 4 1 (2.564 %) BC Cleared 4 1 (2.564 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 6 (15.38 %) C++ 1 6 (15.38 %) VC++ 2 3 (7.692 %) C 3 1 (2.564 %) C# 3 1 (2.564 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (12.82 %) Degree 2 2 (5.128 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.564 %) SLA
System Software 1 19 (48.72 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (5.128 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 3 (7.692 %) WSUS 2 2 (5.128 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 24 (61.54 %) Microsoft 2 5 (12.82 %) Citrix 3 3 (7.692 %) Interwoven 3 3 (7.692 %) VERITAS 4 2 (5.128 %) Apple 4 2 (5.128 %) Symantec 4 2 (5.128 %) Mitel 4 2 (5.128 %) HP 5 1 (2.564 %) Sybase 5 1 (2.564 %) LANDesk